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Yellow!

LittleWit — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 21:46:46 +0000

For my 4th of July four day weekend we transformed this sadly purple room into a vibrant happy yellow room. This room was one of the two rooms I was less than thrilled with when we bought this house over 2 yr ago. you can see how pressing the matter was to get it remedied. The number one priority was the 1/2 bathroom on the main level and then updating this room to look like someone older than 10 lives in it.

So here’s the yellow! (Oh and it’s brighter and cheerier in person)

Yellow room of happiness

And some before pictures. I happen to think the Lendrum wheel and the Christmas tree still look nice!

Purple room at Christmas time

Purple room with new Lendrum wheel.

Sticks N Stitches 2010

LittleWit — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:01:38 +0000

Sorry it’s taken me so long to do this post. I have no good excuse and well we all know about excuses and how everyone has one. At any rate, Sticks n Stitches was great this year! For me as the organizer it was a bit more relaxed on game day which was really nice. I feel like we had a pretty good flow for handing out goodie bags and raffling off the prizes. It did become a bit hairy about two weeks before the game when our ticket sales jumped from 48 to 92 to 112 to finally land at 148 tickets sold. It was definitely our best year yet for tickets sold but hoo boy do y’all know how to give me a heart attack. Grant with the Blue Jackets was very awesome in scaring up enough seats for the majority of us to sit together.

Here’s a pretty good shot of us right before the doors opened:

The boy, Myself, Katy and Katy's sister ready to go.

And here are a couple shots of everyone getting their bags:

Sadly the Blue Jackets didn’t win. Although it was a closely contested game with the Chicago Blackhawks pulling it out in the last few minutes to win 6-5. I am updating the pictures and goodies over on the event page. It should all be up by the end of this weekend. (If not today, it depends on how much other work I get done)

We’re really looking forward to next year’s event. I am hoping to get us the Sky Terrace. The one caveat to that is I really really need people to be willing to purchase their tickets earlier than the week before the game. [Preferably a month or three before the game kind of like one does when they decide to get OSU football tickets or to go see their favorite artist play.] This will allow us to make sure we have enough seats and goody bags to go around and gives us more bargaining power. If you would like to be contacted for next year’s event as soon as the date is picked please drop me a line so I can add you to the list.

Absence

LittleWit — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 15:58:08 +0000

Oh, why hello! Did you miss me? Let’s just say time ran away with me. Sticks N Stitches went really well. I hope to make the time to do a proper post about that this weekend. In other exciting news, for those of you who may have known, The Boy was laid off last April. Yesterday was his first day at his new job and we’re both just thrilled. Although it does mean we won’t be spending every waking moment together, it’ll probably be good for our upcoming marriage. Add a little mystery back in. I hope to be around here more regularly again. I may even do some updates on the wedding planning. Just as a reference to anyone madly googling for ideas.

On a side note, it’s been almost 3 yrs since I started this blog and my 3 yrs of hosting is about up. Leave me a note if you have any good suggestions for hosting companies to switch to. I am currently using Blue Host but the cost has gone up by $90 for the 3 yr bracket. I would like to stay somewhere around $4.50 a month if that’s even possible anymore. Have a great day!

Sticks N Stitches Update (again)

LittleWit — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 18:29:36 +0000

I was informed Tuesday that we had sold out the upper bowl and that the only seats left for the game were in the lower bowl. My contact with the Blue Jackets just emailed me to let me know that management had allowed him to release 50 more seats in the upper bowl at the $26 price point! So if you wanted to go but didn’t want to pay for a ticket in the lower bowl call Grant at the Blue Jackets now! 614.246.7224

Sticks N Stitches Update

LittleWit — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 23:58:09 +0000

We’re about a week and a half out from this year’s Sticks n Stitches with the Columbus Blue Jackets and we’ve already sold out our section in the upper bowl. Since the game is a very popular one for the Blue Jackets – great time of day and a worthy opponent – the upper bowl is now also sold out. The only tickets remaining for the game are in the lower bowl and come with a considerable price increase since our group discount isn’t valid in those sections. According to the gentleman with the Blue Jackets that I am working with, we’ve had inquiries so far for up to 136 tickets. I am starting to get a bit hopeful for next year’s game. If we can boost the number of attendees to 200 that should allow us to reserve the sky box and have more room.

If you’ve come over from Cast On or anywhere else please drop me a note in the comments to tell me how you heard about us. I am still in shock as our ticket sales went from 47 last weds to 126 tonight. That’s a huge boost! (and it wasn’t all my friends buying theirs at the last minute )

I can’t wait to see everyone next Saturday! Go Jackets!

Now you see her…

LittleWit — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 04:55:06 +0000

…now you don’t. My friend Sparkli was awesome tonight and helped me to crop a person out of some of my engagement photos. I think she and D did a bang up job. Heck you’d never know something was missing if I didn’t show you the before and after. I showed the boy to get his approval before putting the pictures into the photo book we’re ordering for ourselves. I asked him if he noticed any differences and I swear you’d have thought he was reading an old Scholastic magazine. He managed to find every spot that I didn’t even notice. Except of course the one spot I was checking to see if he noticed. hah. I think they look great. If you’d like to play your own game of what’s different here are the pictures:

Before Picture

After Picture

Buy Your Tickets

LittleWit — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 21:47:37 +0000

Just a friendly neighborly reminder to buy your tickets for Sticks n Stitches. Right now we’ve only sold 8 tickets and I know I had a list of about 70 people that planned on going. Where are all of you guys? Also, if you know of any vendors who would like to donate to the goody bags or donate door prizes that would be wonderful. As it stands right now there are about 10 people who will get all the loot. I look forward to seeing y’all there!

Testing Complete

LittleWit — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 03:40:21 +0000

Today I finished up one of the items on my to do list (as long as you don’t count weaving in ends…I am saving that all up for conference calls movie marathons!) I can give you a little peek of the bearfoot mittens. I was test knitting a pattern for a friend. I think they look quite cozy with this lovely mug imported from the UK.

Bearfoot mitten

Monday

LittleWit — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 04:17:50 +0000

With all the excitement going on this weekend, I was pretty plum tuckered out and had trouble getting my dupa out of bed this morning. I did however make it to work on time. The boy worked on the edging for the bathroom so hooray it may be all painted soon! We had a wonderful dinner of steak and carrots before I had to run out to a cookie exchange amongst my mom’s friends. I spent the whole time knitting away on the 2nd of my bearfoot mitts. I am currently at the gusset and if I knit enough tomorrow morning and night I might be able to finish. I also picked up my freshly blocked Ishbel that I left over there by accident yesterday. It may have stopped along the way with one of the ladies who tried to claim it as her own. I told her I would be happy to make her one after Christmas but that she could not run off with that one. Now it’s time for bed, so that hopefully I will wake up early and perky tom’w. Then I can get some more time in for Christmas knitting. (eep!)

Village Lights

LittleWit — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 04:08:36 +0000

I took my little to the Village Lights festivities tonight. We had a great time hanging around at Book Loft for an hour before they turned on the lights. Then we hopped in line for the one horse open sleigh rides. She took this picture of the horse when another group was getting on. You could fit 4 people comfortably and squeeze in 5 if you had small kids. It’s a good thing we happened upon the line early as it got long fast and with each trip being about 10 min the wait time was pretty long.

The horse's name was Erin

After we finished our sleigh ride we hightailed it to the other end of the festival to a bakery to try their cupcakes. Then we walked back and had to head home. It was a great time and I will definitely swing by it again next year. Although I may go with the boy so I can partake in some of the adult festivities and drinking.